clockwork

1 Here was this tremendous food supply that arrived every year, like clockwork.

这是每年都会来的巨量的食物来源，就像上了发条一样准。

2 Instead of placing Earth at the center of the universe filled with epicycle-filled clockworks, Copernicus imagined that the sun was at the center instead, and the planets moved in simple circles.

3 These, Bono illuminates for me in asides, and for the first time, I fully comprehended the magnitude of human story in our endeavor and the intricacies stashed like clockwork behind the regularity of our uniforms.

4 I took this in 1969, during the filming of a Clockwork Orange.

1969年，在电影《发条橙》拍摄期间，我拍下了这张照片。

5 the clockwork inside a mechanical toy soldier

6 Almost like clockwork, every night at 9 p.m. the day would overwhelm me and I'd have to go and have a good cry.

几乎像时钟一样，每天晚上9点钟的时候，我就会感受到巨大的压力，不得不离开大哭一场。

7 And what’s more, the something seemed to be pulsing—as though it contained intricate clockwork.

8 The taller of the two boys, Antoine, used to call Hugo “Ticktock” because he always had clockworks in his pockets.

9 The carny’s clockwork arrival honored an event even kids as small as Pontiac knew.

10 They are bound to bits of clockwork, pieces of mirror, stumps of dripping candles.

11 She uses characters that are easily recognizable and her plots develop almost like clockwork.

她创造的人物一眼就能辨认出,情节的发展非常规范、准确、流畅.

12 The sports day went like clockwork, with every race starting and finishing on time.

运动会进展顺利, 所有赛事都准时开始,准时结束.

13 “He takes one, talks his heart out for twenty minutes, and then falls asleep, like clockwork.”

14 The ones that have been running for a while are always slower, like a clockwork toy that just won't wind.

15 While the cheapest family has gone on to work things out like clockwork, I’ve unfortunately lost money to being disorganized.

最省钱家庭把事情做得井井有条，我却不幸因为做事没有条理浪费了钱。

16 Elinor looked so funny hobbling from the wall to the door and back again with her aching feet, back and forth like a clockwork toy.

17 “They are paper and clockwork wrapped up in fairly simple charms. You could do the same with a bit of study.”

18 He is home by six every day regular as clockwork.

他每天六点回家，非常准时。

19 The coast guard kept the clockworks greased, and the lenses revolved twice each minute.

20 Celia cannot keep her eyes from his hands as he shows her the delicate clockwork mechanisms.

1 顺利的

good smooth

2 有规律

regular regularly steadily steady systematic rhythmic like clockwork inerratic measured punctual steady-going regularize

3 有规律的

regular steady systematic rhythmic inerratic measured punctual steady-going

4 精密的

minute Nice detailed exact sophisticated strict precision delicate rigorous exacting

5 自动的

knee-jerk self-instructed self-moved self-operating automatous automatic mechanical voluntary autonomic self-regulating double-action self-acting penny-in-the-slot autokinetic self-moving self-

6 精密

minute Nice detailed exact sophisticated strict precision delicate rigorous exacting nicely precisely sophistication rigor delicacy nicety fineness exactness exactitude

7 机械

mechanical mechanically machine perfunctory parrot-fashion knee-jerk mechano- plant machinery contraption enginery by numbers

8 顺利

good smooth well smoothly swimmingly slickly

9 机械的

mechanical perfunctory knee-jerk mechano-

10 自动

knee-jerk self-instructed self-moved self-operating automatous automatic mechanical voluntary autonomic self-regulating double-action self-acting penny-in-the-slot autokinetic self-moving self- self-motion self-action self-activity